[Mageia-dev] soundwrapper

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and zezinho at 06/03/12 17:33 did gyre and gimble:
> Le lundi 5 mars 2012 23:53:53, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
>> If the game uses OSS, it will get exclusive access to it when used with
>> the ALSA OSS modules.
>>
> 
> Ok so it should only be used by  OSS games. I ask because I tried a simple 
> LXDE install, and then added OpenArena, and it did not start from the menu.
> 
> In fact, soundwrapper was not installed. So I will Require soundwrapper on all 
> this games.
> 
> Is there a simple way to check if a game uses alsa-oss modules ?

You can tell if an application uses oss by doing:
 sudo fuser -v /dev/dsp

Col


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